In the presented collected articles there are considered macroeconomic issues of the raw-material problem in its international aspect, including the role of raw-material resources in securing global competitiveness. Besides that tasks of the state policy in the field of diversifying raw-material exporting model of the economy are considered. There are considered also problems of mineral-and-raw-material industries’ sector of the Russian economy as a subject of macroeconomic diversification, on the one hand, and as separate economic subdivisions with their own technical-and-economic specifics, on the other one. In the process of diversification these industries, characterized by high level of resource demand, ecological threats, cumbersome corporate and technological structure, have to go along difficult path of adapting to new economic model. It is most probable that diversification must occur through combining the production of standardized, off-the-shelf products with growing share of individualized demand, market and products diversification, more profound cooperation with consumers, higher level of activity in the sphere of R&D and technological innovations.
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